Question

How to deploy a droplet on DigitalOcean with Terraform?

Posted on October 20, 2020
DigitalOcean API and CLI (doctl)Terraform
Asked by xenlet

I am having a problem deploying a droplet on DigitalOcean with Terraform. I followed the documentation in the official Terraform website but it does not work. I am getting the following error:

Error: Error creating droplet: POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets: 422 The image you specified is not available in the selected region.

Submit an answer

This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Denislav Gavrilov • October 20, 2020

Accepted Answer

Hi there,

I recently deployed a droplet with Terraform on my own and had the same issue. However, I fixed it by doing the following:

1st part (I assume you already did that)

Go to your Control Panel and click on API on the left menu
Generate new API key
Add the API key to your Terraform environment as an environment in a variables.tf file (best practice):

variable "do_token" {
    default = "YOUR-API-KEY"
}

4.link the do_token variable to the provider block:

provider "digitalocean" {
    version = "2.0.0"
    token = var.do_token
}

2nd part

Execute the following code to get the latest image (centos in this example) slug from DigitalOcean API:

curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-API-KEY" "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images?page=2&per_page=1&type=distribution"

Update the digitalocean_droplet block in your main.tf with the vm slug:

  image  = "centos-6-x64"
  name   = "web-1"
  region = "lon1"
  size   = "s-1vcpu-1gb"
}```

And that's it. I hope this helps. If you need more information on the DO API, please check it here - https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/

Best,
Dennis